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August 2023

  1. A super blue moon

    Taking photos of the moon is always fun. Here’s one I took last night, from London: (It’s not quite up there with the one on the Wikipedia page for the moon,…

  1. A Win32 tree view scrolling oddity

    It turns out the Win32 tree view control has a novel way of selecting items. If you hold down Shift and scroll your mouse wheel up (but not down!) it will…

July 2023

  1. The case of the misplaced GitHub username

    Recently, when using GitHub’s global code search, I noticed something amiss with one of the results: The file path of the result was somewhat confused.…

April 2023

  1. A new PC build

    I had been using an Intel Core i7-8700K since October 2017, patiently waiting for a good opportunity to upgrade. Fed up of waiting, I ordered some new…

March 2023

  1. The 404 errors in the Google Pixel Discover feed

    My Google Pixel 5 Android phone has a feature called a ‘Discover’ feed, which I often look at. The feed contains articles that Google thinks I’d be interested…

  1. The pervasiveness of caret browsing in Windows 10

    When I’m using Visual Studio, I often press the F7 key to start a build. But, a few days ago, I accidentally tried to do that when a taskbar item context menu…

February 2023

  1. Week bits: A turbulent day with Ubuntu

    I’m trying something different for this post – it's spoken (a short podcast, if you like). Week bits 19/02/2023: A turbulent day with…

January 2023

  1. ‘Your business contact information is processed by Lusha Systems Inc.’

    A few days ago, I received this text message: The sender was simply a mysterious ‘Privacy’. Was this a genuine notification about some company having my data,…

  1. An unexpected DPI-scaling failure

    Recently, I printed this colour chart using X-Rite’s i1Profiler calibration software: I was creating some calibrated ICC profiles for my printer for the first…

December 2022

  1. The oddness of the BBC Weather scroll bar

    I often would find myself confused by the scroll bar underneath the days in the forecast on the BBC Weather website. Sometimes it would look like the days were…

September 2022

April 2022

  1. A message from my bank

    I recently tried to move money between two accounts held with the same business bank. I did everything as I usually would, using the relevant mobile…

December 2021

  1. The ten-month-old SSD that ate my data

    I recently noticed that the audio player I use, foobar2000, was refusing to play a certain song in my media library. It complained that the file was corrupt.…

November 2021

  1. Seaford to Eastbourne: a long walk

    I had some free time in mid-September, so decided to go on what seemed like the most picturesque hike that was relatively close to home. I jumped on a train to…

  1. The (unsolved) mystery of the self-terminating applications

    For several months, I’ve been troubled by an odd phenomenon when using Visual Studio. Its first occurrence was several months ago, when I was using Visual…

October 2021

  1. The case of the self-installing Google Drive client

    Yesterday morning, I was greeted by this after logging into my Windows PC: Google Drive was asking me to sign in. This was the fourth time this had happened in…

March 2021

  1. Official Asus XG-C100C firmware update available

    I’ve had the Asus XG-C100C 10Gbps Ethernet card for a while but only really started making use of networking speeds faster than 1Gbps when I recently bought a…

  1. The mystery of the slow downloads folder

    I keep my downloads folder sorted by date, with the most recent downloads first. However, recently, I had been having a problem where Windows Explorer…

August 2020

  1. The freezing Dell U2720Q monitor

    I recently bought a Dell U2720Q 4k monitor. However, I had a curious problem: when using my desktop PC, the monitor would occasionally lock up. The screen would…

April 2020

  1. A winter hike

    I’d known hail to be a momentary phenomenon. This hail, however, was fierce, and didn’t seem to be in any rush to go away. It was late February and I was at…